Message from Mr. Justice H.L. Dattu, Chairperson, NHRC, India on the eve of Human Rights Day-2019 (09.12.2019)

New Delhi, 9th December, 2019

"The world celebrates Human Rights Day tomorrow on the 10th December to mark the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. The Day reminds us that basic rights are our human rights. These include our right to live with liberty, equality and dignity, our right to health, education, freedom of speech and thoughts.

Youth always define and shape our future, and hence, it is necessary that we nurture in them the values of life, which motivate them to recognize the essentiality of mutual coexistence, wherein there is respect for the rights of others.

The United Nations’ theme for Human Rights Day this year: “Youth Standing up for Human Rights” amplifies the need to call upon our youth to make this world humane, compassoinate, free of strife and struggles for basic amenities.

In India, the Preamble of the Constitution and the Articles relating to the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy also make the protection of human rights a Constitutional obligation for the citizens as well as the governments elected by them.

To continue this mission, as per its mandate, the National Human Rights Commission, India, through celebartion of Human Rights Day, re-dedicates itself to raise concerns on any action, policy or law, which impinge on human rights in the country without any adversarial role to the functioning of governments.

Jai Hind!!"